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BOOKS OF THE MONTH

The Coming Thing

By Martina Evans

It’s set in the 1980s Cork punk scene, and “the coming thing” refers both to the arrival of computers and to narrator Imelda’s looming experience of abortion in mainland Britain. Meanwhile, we are immersed in Irish punk, painted in all its filth, fun and fury: pills,

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